Word: crabbed
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...muggy morning in 1932, a 33-year-old Maryland real estate man named Sterling Grover Harris (who had made a good thing of buying Eastern Shore lands from farmers, reselling to rich Northerners) wandering around the Chesapeake Bay fish-docks, found a Negro shoveling savory blue crabs into an incinerator. No slugabed, Businessman Harris poked his nose into the crab industry, found 1) that blue crabs will keep for only a few days in ice, 2) that they had never been canned successfully, because their flesh turned a poisonous-looking blue...
Last week a paper-"Canned Atlantic Crab Meat, A New American Food"-was presented before the American Chemical Society's meeting in Boston. Its authors: a neat, greying food scientist from the Massachusetts State College, Dr. Carl Raymond Fellers, and Businessman Harris, now president of Blue Channel Corp., crab-packers...
...newspaper readers, yacht racing last week was as inconsequential as a split infinitive. But for the slow-stirring, world-apart folk on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Comet Class championship regatta, held on Chesapeake Bay, wrote the most exciting headlines of last weekend. For the Comet (originally christened Crab) is the family-tree-conscious Eastern Shore's own baby...
...week start and finish, but a strong middle race . . . Ptomaine poisoning ravaged the Penn crew this week leaving them a meagre 12 hours of practice. They still rowed a strong finish race and almost nabbed Navy . . . The Penn Freshman had a tragic finish: ahead of the Plebes, a crab threw them out of joint near the finish
...some 800 years throws of two, three and twelve at hazard were called crabs, and to throw one of those numbers was to crab. In France the game of hazard was called krabs, and is so called in a long description of the game in the third volume of the Mathématiques group of the Encyclopeédic Méthodiqué, dates 1792. Craps as we know it today is simply a French simplification of hazard, or krabs, and the word craps, originally spelled creps or kreps, is a corruption of the English crabs. It is so defined...